The CoCreators by CoCreate Work
Welcome to The Co-Creators Podcast, where we’re redefining what it means to build culture—together. Formerly known as The CoCreate Work Podcast, this new evolution is your go-to space for transformational conversations, practical tools, and powerful stories from leaders shaping the future of work. Hosted by La’Kita Williams, Founder & CEO of CoCreate Work, and Chloe Andersen, Managing Partner, this podcast invites you into the heart of co-creation: a mindset and methodology grounded in deep listening, shared ownership, and meaningful change. Whether you're a founder, culture consultant, HR leader, people manager, or someone passionate about making work better, this podcast is for you. In each episode, we’ll share real-world insights, frameworks, and takeaways you can use right away—plus conversations with remarkable co-creators across industries and geographies. 💡 Expect: Actionable tips to drive culture transformation Candid stories from inside our Certification program and consulting practice A spotlight on your unique co-creator style and how to activate it Fresh episodes every Thursday, designed to be useful and digestible Join us—and a global community of co-creators—to learn, grow, and lead with intention. 🎧 Subscribe now and take the Co-Creator Style Quiz at cocreatework.com to get started.
Episodes
Introducing The CoCreate Work Podcast! Here, La'Kita and Chloe will dive deep into how you, The CoCreators, can design company culture and transform how we work. Let's build the future of work together with intention and strategy.
The first episode will air on Monday, September 12, 2022. Remember to subscribe to The CoCreate Work Podcast so that you don't miss an episode and rate us 5 stars to help the show reach a la...
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Welcome to the launch of the CoCreate Work Podcast! As we head into fall, we wanted to discuss the topic of burnout. We believe burnout is a systems level issue and it's important to get to the root cause of what is driving it and create systems level solutions.
In this premiere episode of The CoCreate Work Podcast, La'Kita and Chloe highlight 5 surprising things that may be causing b...
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We are continuing our conversation on burnout this week. We wanted to remind you of the five non-traditional signs of burnout we highlighted in our first episode:
Key Contributors of Burnout
- You’re too far away from impact
- You are not living or leading as the type of leader that you want to be
- Are you living and addressing the other areas of your life?
- Working against your work style
- Doing too mu...
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A recent Deloitte survey says that 77% of US employees have experienced burnout in their current role and that 31% of that burnout was due to lack of recognition or support from their leadership.
This week we continue the conversation on burnout through the lens of your culture and team. La’Kita and Chloe share some things that may contribute to your team’s burnout as well as some solutions to eliminate ...
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We are excited to have Marie Schacht, CEO of Akimbo, join the CoCreate Work Podcast this week to share her journey through burnout with us. Hear how Marie recognized some of the non-traditional signs of burnout we talked about in Episode 001, what she did to work through burnout, and how she addresses burnout with her team.
Lessons from Marie about burnout:
- Take time for recovery, not just rest
- You can...
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This week we are wrapping up our conversation on Burnout by answering your questions! If you’ve missed any of the previous episodes, check them out here and let us know your thoughts.
La'Kita and Chloe answer:
- How much you should share with your team when you as a leader are struggling
- How to stay consistent as a leader
- How to handle things when we are experiencing burnout or grief as a society
Resourc...
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This week’s episode features an important conversation about chronic illness and work. Tune in as our founder, La’Kita, opens up about her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) diagnosis and how that’s changed her life as an entrepreneur.
La’Kita and Chloe also discuss creating a sustainability model for your business when you are a leader and have a chronic illness, having a solid support system in place, and things that empl...
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As a leader, hiring the right team is one of the most important things you can do. According to LinkedIn 76% of hiring managers admit that attracting the right candidates is their biggest challenge. As a lot of leaders are currently growing their teams, we thought this would be a great time to talk about all things hiring!
In this week’s episode La’Kita and Chloe chat about:
- Why hiring the right team is importa...
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In our last episode, La'Kita and Chloe discussed the importance of hiring the right team for your business. During the process of hiring, many leaders find themselves frustrated, believing the myth that there are "no good people out there" or even waiting until the 11th hour to add team members and rushing through the process.
Have you been in this position as a founder? This week, the c...
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After you’ve reviewed what seems like an endless number of resumes, interviewed several candidates and said yes to the ideal candidate to fill the open role on your team, what comes next?
Onboarding!
Having a great system for onboarding is foundational to adding new team members to your organization. As we continue our discussion on Hiring the Right Team, La’Kita and Chloe share 3 important consideration...
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We’ve had some great conversations over the last few weeks discussing important elements in hiring the right team. This week La’Kita and Chloe are answering some of the questions you submitted on hiring the right team. We share 3 critical skills-based elements that are important to the future of work and answers to other questions such as:
- How to create a compelling job description
- How to evaluate and select ca...
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This week we had the privilege of sitting down with the Founder and CEO of Blue Daisi, Moji Igun, to discuss her process of hiring Blue Daisi’s first team member. Moji, currently based in Seattle, WA, is a speaker, writer, and sustainability consultant who works with businesses and organizations that want to grow their sustainability practices by pursuing zero waste.
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This week we are delighted to wrap up our discussion on hiring with our second guest, Mel Carson.
Mel is Founder & CEO at Delightful Communications, a B2B Technology Marketing Agency based in Seattle. For over twenty years, he's been on a mission to help brands and their leaders be more discoverable, shareable, and memorable. He lives on Bainbridge Island with his wife Ashley, who runs the operations for De...
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This week’s episode is all about good reads! La’Kita & Chloe share with us the books that made the top of their lists this year. These books were read (or re-read) in 2022 and resonated personally or had an impact on transforming the future of work with the CoCreate Work clients. And you don’t want to miss which title channels their inner Oprah!
As always, we want to hear from you! Let us know which of these...
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As we approach the beginning of a new year, many of us often view this time as a crucial period of transition. This is the time where we are reflecting on the past year, coming up with New Year’s resolutions and planning ahead. This week we had a rich conversation with Danielle Jenkins Henry on this period of Transition, and some ways we might think about and plan for transitions in the future.
Danielle Jenkins He...
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What an incredible year 2022 has been for us at CoCreate Work! We’ve partnered with so many amazing clients and launched this podcast to further our mission of transforming the future of work. In the final episode of our first season, you will hear La’Kita and Chloe share:
- Their top three Reflections/Takeaways from 2022
- The three People, Practices, or Programs that has had an impact on them this year
- Key trends ...
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The CoCreate Work podcast is back! In this episode, we are giving you an overview of the five ways we will be partnering with you this year to enrich and elevate your business and your life.
This year we will help:
- We are launching even more products to support our purpose of helping leaders like you build transformational work! We will provide more resources and tools than ever before.
- Our word of the...
We took a sabbatical in January! Deciding to take a sabbatical starts with mindset and commitment, including making sure you have the right support and systems in place so that you can truly step away from work. In this episode, we tell you all about how we prepared for that time away from work, and the specific actions and steps we took to make a sabbatical happen!
Resources:
Our first solo episode! This week, La’Kita shares what she did on sabbatical and her top three takeaways from her month away from work:
- The importance of flexibility when things don’t go as planned
- Rest includes space to think and find clarity
- Rebalancing the various areas of life
La’Kita shared some of the talented creators she learned from during sabbatical including:
Our second solo episode! This week, Chloe shares what she did on sabbatical and her top three takeaways from her month away from work:
- It is really important to give yourself permission to not be productive, in the traditional sense of the word
- Resets can be systems / plans / actions, and they can also be mindset resets
- Brains need downtime and it’s important to figure out the type of brain downtime that works best for you
Res...
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